If anyone knows what a champion racehorse looks like it is the esteemed trainer Chris Waller and he had no doubts he saw one last Saturday evening at Ellerslie in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Waller, who has trained an extraordinary eight of the past 10 Australian champion racehorse titles with the likes of Winx, Nature Strip and Verry Elleegant, got his first close-up look at Well Written as she trampled her rivals in the Karaka Millions (3YO) and he later left no doubt as to his opinion of the unbeaten Written Tycoon filly.<\/p>\n
Speaking from the Karaka Yearling Sales a day following Well Written\u2019s blitz, Waller said the performance elevated her into the elite.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe (Well Written) will compete at the top level and be very hard to beat,\u201d Waller predicted. I would say she could even be at the top.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was brilliant,\u201d he told New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing. \u201cWe\u2019ve been watching her for a while. Obviously when we have a lot of good horses in Australia we\u2019re looking to see where the next competitor\u2019s coming from, and we see it in her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well Written made it five wins from five starts on Saturday but it is unlikely she will race in Australia before next season. Her next run is in the NZB Kiwi (1500m) at Ellerslie on March 7.<\/p>\n
Waller said he will be watching The Kiwi closely in March to gain more information on the horse that threatens to dominate at weight-for-age next season. He said the emergence could set-up a great rivalry or two with rising stars of his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess she\u2019ll come across to Australia at some stage and we\u2019ve got horses like Autumn Glow who is also unbeaten, so that\u2019s two horses that could be matching up at some stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says the continued rise of Well Written was important for the New Zealand racing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see what Ka Ying Rising\u2019s doing – he\u2019s rated the best racehorse in the world at the moment as a sprinter,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s come from New Zealand, but he\u2019s not racing there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard for New Zealand to keep the horses because of the big prices that the rest of the world pays but when you\u2019ve got a pin-up horse like that, it just changes the whole industry and everybody runs off it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trainer Peter Moody has five times prepared Australia\u2019s champion racehorse for the season and he too sees a real challenger in Well Written for 2026\/27.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe looked terrific,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was super how she put them to the sword the last 200 metres.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got probably a couple of the better three-year-old fillies in Australia (Sheza Alibi and Ole Dancer) so I\u2019m happy to hear she\u2019s staying here for your slot race in March and I won’t have to do battle with her in the Australian Guineas in about a month\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If anyone knows what a champion racehorse looks like it is the esteemed trainer Chris Waller and he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[147137,53030,111,139,69,147136,213,147135,50704],"class_list":["post-254343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-autumn-glow","tag-chris-waller","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nzb-kiwi","tag-sports","tag-well-written","tag-yulong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}